The price of security.

Estimated cost of securing Gleneagles Hotel, Scotland,    US$180,000,000
  for the July 2005 Group of Eight (G8) summit
Average yearly earnings per 100,000 people living in        $180,000,000
  the 18 poor countries pledged complete debt relief
  by the G8
Estimated cost of security and other preparations for       $400,000,000
  the July 2006 G8 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia

President Bush's fiscal year 2007 budget request for     $42,700,000,000
  the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
U.S. Department of Defense budget for fiscal year 2007  $448,818,000,000
Al Qaeda estimated budget for one year                       $30,000,000

Estimated hourly cost of flying the U.S. president in            $56,800
  Air Force One
Median value of a home in Arkansas County, Arkansas;             $56,800
  Lefore and Tunica Counties, Mississippi; Kingman
  County, Kansas; Jackson County Minnesota; Blaine
  County, Montana; and Hemphill County, Texas

Number of Google hits for the search term "global             10,600,000
  security" (July 20, 2006)
Number of Google hits for the search term "U.S.                4,920,000
  security"

Sources: Summit costs, earnings: London Sunday Times, June 19, 2005;
CIA World Fact Book; www.petersburgcity.com.
Budgets: Department of Homeland Security, Budget-in-Brief Fiscal Year
2007; Department of Defense 2007 Budget Detail; the Report of the
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States. Air
Force One cost, house value: USA Today, U.S. Census Bureau.

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